I was a kid and had just discovered the books - and I was so, so angry with the drippy girl on the bridge because she was years older than me and made such a rotten job of summarizing the plot. I felt she was making fun of it....

Thanks for posting the link. I'm sitting here with a big grin because it was so good to see it again and remember how it felt the first time round to hear Tolkien speaking, and all the questions I was burning to ask. But did we really all talk in such tirriblypricise, clipped little accents? I wonder when that stopped.